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Yarrow, however, for a future chapter. From Ettrick- 

 foot to Melrose the salmon-fishings belong chiefly to 

 Major Scott of Gala and Lord Somerville, and we 

 believe the different waters are all rented by Mr. 

 Broadwood, the eminent London piano-manufacturer, 

 who has several keepers protecting the river, and pays 

 a visit or two each year to the Tweed, residing at the 

 Pavilion, Lord Somerville's seat, which he rents along 

 with the fishings. The Gala joins the Tweed from the 

 north, a little below Abbotsford, and about three miles 

 above Melrose. It, also, and the streams that sub- 

 sequently contribute to the Tweed the Leader, the 

 Teviot, the Till, and the Whitadder are of sufficient 

 importance to demand separate notice. The Allan or 

 Elwand-water, which runs about, parallel with the 

 Gala, separated by high ground, flows in a little be- 

 low the junction of the latter stream. Its vale is the 

 Glendearg of " The Monastery ;" but we regret that 

 we can say nothing as to its adaptation to angling. 

 Scott thus describes it in the preface to the novel we 

 have mentioned : " The Allan, after traversing the 

 romantic ravine called the Nameless Dean, thrown 

 off from side to side alternately, like a billiard ball re- 

 pelled by the sides of the table on which it is played, 

 may be traced upwards into a more open country, 

 where the banks retreat farther from each other, and 

 the vale exhibits a good deal of dry ground, which has 

 not been neglected by the active cultivators of the dis- 

 trict." Near the mouth of this little stream was the 

 singular old bridge across the Tweed which figures in 

 the same book. It consisted of three stone pillars, or 

 towers, connected by wooden planks ; on the middle 



